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For I am nothing if not critical.

For I am nothing if not critical.

William Shakespeare
Critics, Critical, Ifs
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 118

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

William Shakespeare
Culture, Poor, My Own

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

William Shakespeare
Art, Long, Giving
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

William Shakespeare
Player, Mouths, Lines
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

William Shakespeare
Chance, Planning, Exposure
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

William Shakespeare
Poetry Is, Touchstones, Feigning
William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”

I can no longer live by thinking.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Live By, I Can

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Dad, Father
William Shakespeare, L. A. Beaurline (1990). “King John”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Air, Expectations
William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.590

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

William Shakespeare
Lightning, Nimble, Thunder
William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

William Shakespeare
Mouths, Lips, Philosopher
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night”, p.29

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Saint, Use
William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Grace, May
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [161]

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

William Shakespeare
War, Dark, Wife
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare
Wisdom, Waiting, Cold
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

William Shakespeare
Gloves, May, Sides
William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.255

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

William Shakespeare
Rebel, Youth
William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

William Shakespeare
Law, Charity
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1519, BookCaps Study Guides

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Eye, Looks
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Men, Soul
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.533

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Trying, Done
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.354

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

William Shakespeare
Answers, Judgment
William Shakespeare (1847). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.219

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

William Shakespeare
Men, Suffering, Quality
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear”, p.184

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

William Shakespeare
Kind, Judgment, Remorse
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.159

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

William Shakespeare
Men, Humanity, Made
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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